How to pronounce “fold”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
• (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
• (transitive) To draw or coil (one’s arms, a snake’s body, etc.) around something so as to enclose or embrace it.
• (transitive, cooking) To stir (semisolid ingredients) gently, with an action as if folding over a solid.
• (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
• (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to collapse or give way; to be crushed.
• (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
• (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
• (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
• (intransitive) To fail, to collapse, to disband.
• (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
• (transitive) To double or lay together (one’s arms, hands, wings, etc.) so as to overlap with each other.
• (transitive, obsolete) To plait or mat (hair) together.
• (transitive) To enclose in a fold of material, to swathe, wrap up, cover, enwrap.
• (transitive) To enclose within folded arms, to clasp, to embrace (see also enfold).
• (transitive, figuratively) To cover up, to conceal.
• (transitive, obsolete) To ensnare, to capture.
• (transitive, computing) To split (a line of text) across multiple lines, to obey line length limitations.
• [Noun]
• An act of folding.
• That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.
• A gentle curve of the ground; gentle hill or valley.
• (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
• (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.
• (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
• (functional programming) Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
• (programming) A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
• One individual part of something described as manifold, twofold, fourfold, etc.

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